'Talvez um dos Doze de Inglaterra (treze, na verdade, se a história estiver bem contada)' ou de como revisitar o cânone para reinventar outra narrativa: reflexões em torno de "O Magriço", de Tiago Salazar

Abstract

The present work aims to reflect on the most recent novel by the Portuguese writer Tiago Salazar, O Magriço (2020), seeking to observe some important points in its construction, since the idea launched in the subtitle of the work (“The true story of D. Álvaro Gonçalves Coutinho, one of the Twelve of England”) until its genological categorization (“historical novel”). Therefore, the postulates of Maria de Fátima Marinho (1999), Mário César Lugarinho (2005) and Umberto Eco (1985), among other important sources, will be articulated to think about how the author expands the constitutive boundaries of the textual typology to compose a novel that revisits the Camonian canon not only to reinvent another narrative, but also to reveal the simplicity and the dissidence of historical agents, often painted solely in heroic tones, as well as their bitterness and their unpleasantness.